Meta (Facebook, Instagram) is again called upon to review its rules on nudity, in particular the one that prohibits women from showing their bare breasts and undermines the ability of women and transgender or non-binary people to express themselves, according to the advice of group surveillance.
“We’re asking Meta to look into this. We’re saying there should be more equality. It’s interesting to note that the only nipples that aren’t sexualized are those of men or those that have had surgery,” Helle Thorning said. -Schmidt, former prime minister of Denmark and a member of Meta’s supervisory board, during an Instagram webcast on Thursday.
The social media giant’s “supreme court” recently ruled that Meta should not have removed photos posted by a couple that showed their breasts, with their nipples covered.
The caption mentioned the health of transgender people and explained that one of the two people would soon have surgery as part of sex reassignment surgery (removal of the breasts). The couple was fundraising to help them finance the intervention. “The removal of these images is not consistent with Meta’s values or her human rights responsibilities,” the oversight board said Tuesday.
“The company’s adult nudity policy more strongly restricts the expression of women, transgender people, and non-binary people on its platforms,” the board added. The supervisory board is made up of 20 international members, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders and former political leaders. It was created in 2020 at the proposal of boss Mark Zuckerberg and is in charge of evaluating the content moderation policy of the Californian group.
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Meta-norms prohibit images containing female nipples, except in certain health contexts, such as lactation or gender reassignment surgeries. “This regulation is based on a binary vision of genders,” says the council. “This implies that moderators quickly and subjectively determine sex and gender, which is unrealistic on a large scale.”
For this reason, it recommends that Meta’s management define “clear, objective and respectful criteria for human rights so that people are treated without discrimination based on sex or gender, in accordance with international human rights standards.”
Instagram is regularly accused of prudishness and lack of objectivity on the part of its users. “Free these beauties,” model Helena Christensen wrote Thursday in a comment to a parody video of comedian Celeste Barber shaking those pixelated bare breasts.
Source: BFM TV
